Quotes about Action
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
— George Eliot
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
— George Eliot
Cathy told her that the most important thing in life was to clean up one's own mess, commit oneself a hundred percent to reality, place all one's energy in the present moment, and to do so right now, immediately.
— Isabel Allende
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.
— Ashley Montagu
If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy.
— Anonymous
The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.
— Anonymous
It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.
— Anonymous
We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.
— Anonymous
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
— Henry David Thoreau
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
— Samuel Johnson
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
— Anonymous